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The Genesis of Vari-Lite — PLSN (Projection, Lights & Staging News)
- Key
- moen-2021-plsn-genesis-of-vari-lite
- Authors
- Moen, Debi
- Issued
- 2021-9-10
- Type
- article-magazine
- Container
- PLSN (Projection, Lights & Staging News)
Raw CSL JSON
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"title": "The Genesis of Vari-Lite",
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Claims
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Vari-Lite's first automated luminaire grew from a fall 1980 suggestion by Showco partner Jack Maxson to add motors so a fixture would move, and premiered on September 25, 1981, in Barcelona on Genesis's ABACAB tour; the VL1 had three colour wheels and one gobo wheel giving sixty colour combinations, plus pan, tilt and dimming.
"Add two more motors and it moves."
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